All Our Bags Are Packed, We're Ready to Roll

I'm watching "The Amazing Race" as I blog this, waiting to start our own amazing race to MelodyJoy tomorrow morning.

January 25th we received our referral. Eight weeks ago, all we had was a picture of MelodyJoy on a computer screen and now, in just another week, we'll have her in our arms. All the paperwork is collected, our bags are packed--and we actually have a little extra room left over. We had a "last supper" tonight as a family at Applebee's . . . a well-deserved break for Jeannette after several hard days of packing and cleaning . . . and did some debriefing with Jordan and Phillip prior to abandoning them for the next two weeks.

On January 5, 2005, we submitted our initial adoption application. Fifteen days from now . . . and exactly fifteen months since we plopped down that first $225 and hit "send" on that app . . . MelodyJoy will set foot in the US of A for the very first time.